Souad
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/swad/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Souad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 704(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.2K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 273 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 704 (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Souad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #642 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 704 | listed | Souad | 52 |
| DZ Algeria | #600 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Souad | 28 |
| FR France | #765 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 3.8K | Souad | 273 |
| TN Tunisia | #536 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 2.3K | Souad | 23 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,090 | 1 in 9.8K | 5.1K | Souad | 24 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 2 | Souad | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); the dz-kaggle-names register; A page containing naming statistics for Lebanon published by Etudiants du Monde.. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Souad al-Sabahb. 1942KWKuwaiti economist, writer and poet
- Soad Hosnyb. 1943EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actress (1943–2001)
- Souad Faressb. 1948GHBritish actress
- Souad Abdullahb. 1950KWKuwaiti actress
- Souad Saberb. 1950MAMoroccan actor
- Suad Nasrb. 1953EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor and comedian (1953–2007)
- Souad Amidoub. 1959FRFrench actress (born 1959)
- Souad Abderrahimb. 1964TNTunisian politician
- Souad Massib. 1972DZAlgerian singer and actress
- Souad SebkiDZAlgerian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.1K | #869 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.6K | #475 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.8K | #1,798 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1970 | 2.3K | #2 |
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1960 | 1.9K | #3 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Souad?
- A machine transcription gives /swad/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Souad a male or female name?
- Souad is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Souad?
- In the etymology graph, Suada is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Souad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Souad in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled souad.
- How common is the name Souad?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,090 people named Souad, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Souad compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Souad is the 642nd most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Souad?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/souadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Souad” — the 642nd most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.